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Revision as of 21:23, 10 October 2009
Motivation
The OSGeo Cartographic Library and all software projects obviously need a free map symbol set.
Available Material
- GRASS GUI icons: visual dictionary
- Free map symbol sets from GFOSS.it: Simboli cartografici: trees, geology, meteorology and north arrows
- Free (GPL) cartography symbols from GRASS
- GpsDrive and OpenStreetMap maintain a repository of c. hundreds of Point Of Interest (POI) rasterized and SVG symbol icons under a permissive OSS license. Things like "banks" and "hospitals" are very well covered.
- US Government
- National Park Service (public domain) http://www.nps.gov/hfc/carto/map-symbols.htm
- symbols for wildland fire (public domain?) http://gis.nwcg.gov/gstop_symbol.html
- GeoServer default SLDs: http://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/trunk/configuration/release/styles/ (useful?)
- AtlasStyler collection of SE symbols and SVGs: http://en.geopublishing.org/openmapsymbols/
- ...
Other Technology
(please keep focus on free as in freedom technologies)
Microsoft has a symbol server
Symbol Availability
see also the GpsDrive/OpenStreetMap matrix above
| Symbol | GFOSS.it | GRASS | OSGEO | QGIS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community | ||||
| School | NA | |||
| Recreation Centre | NA | |||
| Emergency Services | ||||
| Hospital | NA | |||
| Police station | NA | |||
| Fire station | NA | |||
| Ambulance | NA | |||
| Basic | NA | |||
| Arrow | yes | NA | ||
| Box | yes | NA | ||
| Circle | yes | NA | ||
| Extras | NA | |||
| Compass | Yes | NA | ||
| Airport | Yes | NA | ||
| Target | yes | NA | ||
| Dive Flag | yes | NA | ||
| Transportation | ||||
| Information Centre | NA | |||
| Bus Stop | NA | |||
| Picnic Area | NA |
Format
- The preferred interchange format is SVG.
Interested people
- Markus Neteler (proposer)
- Dave Sampson
- Martin Landa: GRASS developer
- Wolf Bergenheim
- Stefan A. Krüger: AtlasStyler developer
- Maksim Sestic
- Alex Mandel
- Hamish: GRASS, GpsDrive dev